Intelligent Service Optimization Solutions for Enterprise Networks

To ensure that a business's mission-critical applications run smoothly at all times without interference, network managers must have a clear view of all application traffic running on the Internet, the Wide Area Network (WAN) and the data center. Allot solutions grant enterprise network managers a clear and precise depiction of how their bandwidth is being utilized in real-time and over time. Using Allot solutions, network managers are able to optimize network performance by guaranteeing bandwidth for critical application traffic and wan optimization, limiting the capacity of ‘nice-to-have’ applications and even removing non-business applications completely if required. To complete the package, Allot provides long-term reporting options on the use of the Internet and WAN applications – vital for capacity planning and trend analysis.

Allot's comprehensive portfolio of products is based on cutting-edge Layer-7 Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) technology. Looking deep into each and every packet and into packet flows traversing the network, they help in application acceleration and identify and prioritize applications according to defined policies, offering enterprise networks the unique combination of the following:

Allot solutions optimize performance and Quality of Service on Internet, Data Center and WAN links

Allot solutions for enterprise networks include:

• Network Visibility solutions deliver the application awareness and network intelligence that is needed to understand how broadband resources are being consumed by users and applications across the entire network. Providing both real-time and long-term monitoring and reporting, Allot solutions enable fast and efficient troubleshooting as well as informed capacity planning based on accurate usage statistics and trend analysis.

• Sophisticated Bandwidth Management solutions allow network managers to control costs and optimize network performance by efficiently managing the utilization of bandwidth resources dedicated to Internet links, data centers and WANs. As a result, the enterprise network becomes more supportive of your business.

• Wide Range of Solution Options: Enterprise networks may be facing application performance problems on the Internet links, within their data centers and on their WAN links. Allot's broad portfolio of products scales to support from 100Mbps to 10Gbps throughput, allowing wan acceleration and centralized management of the entire network with customized traffic policies suited to the needs of each network link.

Optimize WAN Bandwidth

Reduce Network Traffic with WAN Bandwidth Optimization

Many enterprises use WAN bandwidth optimization in order to cut costs and relieve network congestion. But typical WAN optimization products only reduce network traffic by ten or twenty percent. In contrast, a wide-area data services (WDS) solution can reduce network utilization typically by 60 to 95%.

Data Streamlining provides better bandwidth optimization

Riverbed removes repetitive traffic from your WAN through patent-pending Data Streamlining algorithms. Data Streamlining stores your WAN traffic on disk in a proprietary, application-independent form that can be reused by any application, any file or any user that sends or receives the same data. Whether a client requests a file that has been renamed, emails an attachment or uses another application like FTP or a Web-based application, any traffic that is generated that has been across the network before will not be retransmitted.

Instead, only a small reference to the data is sent to the Riverbed Steelhead appliance on the opposite side of the network. Riverbed's references are 16 bytes in length, yet can represent megabytes of data, which results in high levels of WAN bandwidth optimization.

Riverbed delivers more than just WAN optimization

Unlike WAN optimization products, Riverbed Steelhead appliances deliver much more than reduced network traffic. Riverbed not only provides the best WAN optimization available today, but also improves the throughput of your applications - because it's more than limited network bandwidth that slows down your applications. Most vendors focused on WAN bandwidth optimization do not offer true application acceleration, which are different and distinct challenges. Riverbed leads the pack on both.